I was reading through what seemed to be a reasonable analysis of Hillary’s SC victory just now: How Hillary Clinton won the battle for the black vote in South Carolina on Yahoo News by somebody named Hunter Walker. But then I got to this part of the story. My jaw literally dropped — Literally… I had to consciously close my mouth. So I read it again…
“Dot Scott, the president of the NAACP’s Charleston branch, was similarly critical of Sanders’ team. Scott, who admitted being family friends with Clinton’s South Carolina state director, said she only had one contact with the Sanders campaign, and it went “sour.”
Like many South Carolinians, Scott has received calls at home from phone bankers. She said one of these entreaties from the Sanders campaign led her to go off on a 10-minute tirade and demand an apology.
“One of my experiences that I think I won’t forget for a long time is a call that I got from the Sanders campaign. This person that called asked me was I voting for Sen. Sanders. I said no. I was voting for Secretary Clinton. The phone went silent for a little bit,” Scott recounted. “You could hear this person struggling to come up with what they’re going to say next. … They call that a real pregnant pause, nine months’ worth of pregnant pause. And he finally came back and he says to me, ‘You know, Senator Sanders is for welfare.’”
This did not provoke a positive reaction from Scott.”
I’ve done a fair amount of phone banking myself. I was trained to do it, and was reminded over and over again to stick to my script. I was reasonably good at it and eventually I began to train phone bankers and reminded them over and over to stick to the script. So I have two questions:
1.) Who was responsible for training Bernie’s phone bankers?
2.) What does it say about this particular phone banker that the first thing that he came up with was a “rebuttal” whose racism is so blatant as to be cartoonish?
I’d prefer to believe this didn’t happen.